Central Diffraction in ALICE

Abstract

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN consists of a central barrel, a muon spectrometer and of additional detectors for trigger and event classification purposes. The low transverse momentum threshold of the central barrel gives ALICE a unique opportunity to study the low mass sector of central production at the LHC. I will report on first analysis results of meson production in double gap events in minimum-bias proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV, and will describe a dedicated double gap trigger for future data taking.

To appear in Conf. Proceedings 14th Workshop on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering (EDS Blois Workshop), Frontiers of QCD: From Puzzles to Discoveries, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, dec 15-21, 2011, 4 pages, 4 figures; Proceedings EDS11

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